Thanks a lot to Larry Epstein who writes:

I enjoyed your posts about “Red River Shore” which is certainly a great song. I thought you might be interested to know that Dylan used an earlier version of the original ballad for more than this song. John and Alan Lomax’ book American Ballads and Folk Songs contains a version taken from Slim Critchlow of the Utah Buckaroos, out of Salt Lake. As far as I know, that’s the earliest written version. There is one line in that Critchlow song that goes “She wrote me a letter, and she wrote it so kind.” This exact line appears in the song “Not Dark Yet” on the very same Time Out of Mind album from which “Red River Shore” was cut. The Kingston Trio version of the song has the line without the word “and.” Talk about Dylan being authentic!

I write The Dylan Watch for The Best American Poetry blog:. http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/dylan_watch/

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Thanks to Sue for the link to an interview with Jann Wenner, which took place on Australian television, and includes this regarding Bob Dylan:

ANDREW DENTON: You did a long interview with Dylan as well in 69. Did you get lost talking to him like most other people did?

JANN WENNER: Well he’s a tough interview.

ANDREW DENTON: Really? [laugh]

JANN WENNER: Yeah I mean as a fellow professional of this, not constrained by television if you can’t get what you want out of a person you just after they finished answering the question sometimes you just sit there and go and you look at them like that and then they get kind of nervous that they haven’t answered the question you want so they try the same question, they do it again and they give you an even better answer because they’re now they’re working really hard to make you happy and I tried that on him and I could sit there and stare at him for 45 seconds, he wouldn’t blink or budge.

It’s an amusing picture, I must say, of Bob Dylan sitting in complete silence while Jann Wenner vainly waits for an answer more to his liking.

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Trying to find the chords for those new songs from Tell Tale Signs? They are already up at the invaluable Dylan Chords.info website.

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